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Carmen Reinhart.

‘If it’s not over on the disease … it’s not over on the balance sheet’

Kennedy School’s Carmen Reinhart, just named chief economist at the World Bank, says the COVID-born financial crisis will last until the health crisis is solved

DateMay 20, 2020May 20, 2020

Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump, and Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit.

Harvard ramps up focus on Europe

Kennedy School program will study issues weakening continent, undercutting longtime U.S. alliance

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DateJune 29, 2018June 29, 2018

Kennedy School graduates Guillaume Liegey (left) and Brune Poirson discuss their experience guiding Emmanuel Macron to victory just weeks after graduating. Arthur Goldhammer (right) also participated in the event. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

An electoral French revolution

Young Kennedy School grads explain how what they learned here helped them win key races there

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DateSeptember 27, 2017July 26, 2019

Carlos Moedas, European Union Science Commissioner, spoke about science in the "post-truth" era and the importance of respecting evidence in a democracy. "If you want to do good policymaking, if you want to make good decisions, [they] have to be based on evidence, based on facts."

Advice for scientists: ‘Be vocal’

In campus visit, EU official talks ‘post-truth’ worries, policy, and digital realities

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DateApril 20, 2017April 21, 2017

James Laurent waved a European Union flag outside the houses of Parliament in London on Friday.

After Brexit, a changed future

European Union now needs to regroup and to calm other skittish members, Harvard analysts say

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DateJune 24, 2016

British Prime Minister David Cameron is at the forefront of a debate that has led to this month's referendum on whether the United Kingdom should retain its membership in the European Union.

Britain muses: Play bridge or solitaire?

U.K. may vote shortly to quit European Union, with cascading economic and political effects

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DateJune 17, 2016March 7, 2019

CES receives gift to establish the Özyeğin Forum on Modern Turkey

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DateApril 13, 2015June 6, 2019

Monuments to Kiev's founders burned as anti-government protesters clashed with riot police. Serhii Plokhii, director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, explained what’s behind the violence and what’s at stake for a country that’s caught in a tug-of-war between Europe and Russia.

Confrontation in Ukraine

In Q&A, a look at the causes and effects of Kiev’s violent protests

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DateFebruary 20, 2014May 2, 2019

Governments have the duty to protect their citizens from corporate abuses, and so have an important role to play in regulating business activity within their boundaries, said Professor John Ruggie. Ruggie is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Where corporations, public meet

Professor’s project for U.N. focuses on how businesses should react on human rights concerns

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DateMarch 29, 2013May 17, 2019

“I’m convinced that all this hard work will start bearing fruit in the not-too-distant future, and in fact the first signs are already visible,” said Olli Rehn, vice president of the European Commission, about progress in the wake of the Euro crisis.

Hope for continental recovery, in 2013

European Commission leader sees troubled economies stabilizing

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DateSeptember 27, 2012

“The future cannot be bought on credit,” said Jan Fischer (left), former prime minister of the Czech Republic and the leading candidate in the country’s presidential campaign. The talk, “The Euro Crisis and Its Impact on Central and Eastern EU Nations,” was chaired by Center for European Studies Director Grzegorz Ekiert (right).

A firm voice on Europe

Czech Republic’s Fischer cautions against full federation

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DateSeptember 21, 2012

Black Sea Security Program alumni form lasting bonds as ambassadors

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DateDecember 8, 2011March 20, 2019

“The crisis that we face today in Europe is not a European crisis alone. It’s a crisis of modern industrial society, it’s a crisis of capitalism, and it has every likelihood of becoming a crisis of democracy,” said Guido Goldman (left), co-founder of Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and director of German studies. Goldman and Karl Kaiser (right), adjunct professor of public policy and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs’ Program on Transatlantic Relations, addressed the European debt crisis during a Monday panel discussion.

Germany, again a linchpin

Speaker says nation is pivotal to stabilizing euro crisis

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DateDecember 6, 2011March 19, 2019

“It was a relief you cannot imagine,” said Jason Beckfield of being named a full professor of sociology at Harvard, “an instantaneous lowering of blood pressure.”

Forces beyond nations

Professor envisions a regionalized future for countries with mutual, overriding interests

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DateOctober 27, 2011May 3, 2019

Phillip H. Gordon, the U.S. assistant secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, told an audience in the Goodman Classroom that “the political and economic integration” of Southeastern Europe within the rest of the continent is the key to regional stabilization and development in the years ahead.

Knitting Europe together

Obama aide hopes to draw southeastern states into continental structures

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DateFebruary 18, 2010May 1, 2019